Starting and stopping Metro Mirror and Global Mirror partnerships using the CLI

You can use the command-line interface (CLI) to start and stop Metro Mirror and Global Mirror partnerships.

1. To start a Metro Mirror or Global Mirror partnership, run the svctask chpartnership command from either cluster. For example, enter:

   svctask chpartnership -start remote_cluster_id

   Where remote_cluster_id is the ID of the remote cluster. The svctask mkpartnership command starts the partnership by default.

2. To stop a Metro Mirror or Global Mirror partnership, run the svctask chpartnership command from either cluster.

   For example, enter:

   svctask chpartnership -stop remote_cluster_id

   Where remote_cluster_id is the ID of the remote cluster.